An Iceland volcano eruption happened on December 18 on the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland, not far from the famous Blue Lagoon and just north of the town of Grindavik.
After eight hundred years, the volcanoes on the Reykjanes peninsula erupted. Eurasia and North America are growing farther apart on the tectonic plates.
The area, which is 45 minutes from Reykjavik, has been having earthquakes for the past two months. On November 10, it looked like the volcano might erupt under the town of Grindavik, which is home to about 4,000 people.
But it didn’t—at least not right away. Why is it so hard to tell when a volcano will erupt?
What Happened over there during Icelandic Volcano Eruption?
As far as anyone can tell, the Volcanic activity on this appears to occur in pulses. That’s right, 800 years ago there was a string of eruptions that happened at different times, one after the other, with a long break of several decades in between. So, in 2021, there was the first eruption since the Middle Ages. On the other hand, an intrusion was found in Serbia in 2020.
According to Source, that might have been the beginning of this new episode. A lot of the time, our pleasure sparks are like that. Then, however, we had this intrusion that was taking place just to the north of Ethiopia in this region, and we were able to observe this inflation from the GPS. As a result, this indicates that the ground is gradually rising over time. Then there is this big change on the evening of November 10th.
In this picture, we can see that the ground has dropped about 40 centimeters. But what’s more important is that the sign of inflation has not stopped.
This process has been ongoing for millions of years, according to Our Team. What pulls the plates away from each other is one of the biggest plate boundaries of this type, and it runs along the whole Atlantic.
Volcano eruption in Iceland is the only place on earth where this plate emerges from the ocean on its own accord.
That’s why we’re trying to figure out what’s going on inside volcanoes and how magma rises to the surface and spreads from there. We can only guess what will happen in two or three days from now. Based on the current unrest, there is an 80% chance that there will be an eruption, but we don’t know when or where it will happen.
There is a good chance that this action, which we are currently dealing with, will continue for around ten years. Within the next hundred to three hundred years, there will be breaking all along the peninsula.